tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453775580949648277.post5704432196958182795..comments2016-04-29T05:18:03.529-05:00Comments on Saturdays Child: TombstoneTues: Another Odd Funeral PicJamaGeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973656461323918279noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453775580949648277.post-16958386497111069672010-03-21T11:07:18.600-05:002010-03-21T11:07:18.600-05:00Mavis, even though I jest about them, I&#39;m glad...Mavis, even though I jest about them, I&#39;m glad to have such pictures too. <br /><br />I&#39;ve never heard of videotaping a funeral, but no that you mention it, I wish someone had taped the funeral of one of my uncles. It was a celebration of life and there wasn&#39;t a dry eye in the church, not from weeping but from laughing at the stories told about him. A funeral service definitely worth reliving.JamaGeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973656461323918279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453775580949648277.post-27792463350858793072010-03-21T08:10:35.548-05:002010-03-21T08:10:35.548-05:00My family is strange like that too. I&#39;ve got p...My family is strange like that too. I&#39;ve got picture of both of my maternal grandparents in their coffins, also two of daddy&#39;s brothers and oh yes the haunting picture of my great-grandmothers coffin / funeral. Heck my dad even had a video camera at one of his brother&#39;s funerals that he felt the need to show me because I couldn&#39;t make it to my uncle&#39;s funeral. <br /><br />Although I think the pictures are strange and somewhat morbid, I&#39;m actually glad I have them especially my maternal grandmother. I was only 5 when she died and my memories of her aren&#39;t the strongest.Mavishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10241988882011440597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453775580949648277.post-22726444733371924092010-03-18T20:03:26.417-05:002010-03-18T20:03:26.417-05:00Hi, Alan. I&#39;m thrilled to have discovered you...Hi, Alan. I&#39;m thrilled to have discovered your blog(s) too!<br /><br />steviewren, maybe because I came from a &quot;warped&quot; family, your granddaddy&#39;s obit in your baby book doesn&#39;t seem odd at all! (: All joking aside, an ancestor&#39;s obit in a baby book makes perfect sense. Gives the child a head start on his/her family history later on. My own baby book came with a 2-page fill-in-the-blanks family tree, which I now know wasn&#39;t very accurate, but it was a start!JamaGeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973656461323918279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453775580949648277.post-82790890632422483212010-03-18T19:46:21.840-05:002010-03-18T19:46:21.840-05:00Arthur, at the funeral home after my mother died, ...Arthur, at the funeral home after my mother died, I carefully spelled my uncommon married name to the funeral director, who entered that spelling on the obit form. Even then, it was misspelled in the published copy! <br /><br />The obit of her mother (who outlived her) is another &quot;comedy of errors&quot;, as is her death certificate. Her 80-something daughter was the informant for both, relaying the &quot;facts&quot; from memory, not the several obits Grandma had composed before her own memory failed. <br /><br />Biographies in county histories published in the 1880s are also a fountain of misinformation. People had to pay to have a bio included, so what was published was whatever &quot;facts&quot; the subject wanted his neighbors to know. For this reason, these are known as &quot;vanity bios&quot;.JamaGeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973656461323918279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453775580949648277.post-75216999308760203782010-03-18T11:32:51.926-05:002010-03-18T11:32:51.926-05:00Fascinating, I&#39;m so glad I discovered your blo...Fascinating, I&#39;m so glad I discovered your blog.Alan Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01015127443616786425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453775580949648277.post-85676588245308203962010-03-18T08:29:43.845-05:002010-03-18T08:29:43.845-05:00Funny that your family took more interest in a rel...Funny that your family took more interest in a relative&#39;s death than birth. But it&#39;s stories like these that give a family character. <br /><br />Actually, there is a copy of my granddaddy&#39;s obit in my baby book...our families may have a lot in common.steviewrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14233066158555762167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453775580949648277.post-41582804235895298232010-03-16T19:49:35.017-05:002010-03-16T19:49:35.017-05:00Re: &quot;The clipping above is a prime example wh...Re: &quot;The clipping above is a prime example why information<br />in newspaper obits should never be treated as fact.&quot;<br />I always wondered how this could happen. Then I was aghast when I read the published copies of my mother&#39;s obituary I had submitted to three newspapers last spring, and in all the re-editing I had somehow given her my father&#39;s birth year, 1920, not 1922. And you know it is damage done - no published correction will suffice. (Now, had my sisters really read the copy carefully as I thought I had asked . . . . )Arthurnoreply@blogger.com